Reno Elks Hoops Shoot celebrates 40 years

4:05 AM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Written by

Eric Lee Castillo
Special to the RGJ

The Reno Elks Hoop Shoot National Basketball contest, run with partner the Boys and Girls Club, celebrates its 40-year anniversary on Saturday. Only its participants precede its history in Nevada.

Directors of the program for 40 years and running are Chris Anastassatos, 65, who graduated from Wooster High School in 1965 and played basketball there for two seasons, and Jon Jenson, 70, who graduated from Reno High School in 1961.

Jenson's daughter Kristi, 39, who ran track for Unverisity of Nevada, Reno, and graduated in 1965, says winning the tournament up to the state level when she was 10 ...